So they can feed disease too? Is there anything bananas can’t do?
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ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
One single plant, cloned thousands of times. Easily devastated by disease.
nexguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Rebound from a viral pandemic, RIP Gros Michel
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only heard about those via my dad, never got to try one…
teft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They aren’t extinct, just not commercially viable. A few isolated pockets of the trees survived the blight. A quick web search will turn up someone selling some if you really want to try them but like the other poster said if you’ve tried fake banana flavor you’ve tried gros michel.
CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if you’ve ever had banana laffy taffy you’ve had the artificially created flavor of one.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
You’d reminded me that I still wanted to try these, someday, and I went looking, again, for if there was an easier means (other than travelling to Hawaii); I found this place that delivers within the contiguous states: miamifruit.org/…/gros-michel-banana-box-order. If you had wanted to try one; more expensive, due to the fragility of the crop, but viable.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
You can order them from Hawaii (or maybe you have to physically be there).
It’s just no longer worth mass producing and shipping any more due to the potential to lose your entire crop.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That’s only the Cavendish, there are other varieties of banana. I was recently in Hawai’i and got to try an Apple Banana that had been grown there.
XiELEd@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
In Southeast Asia we have lots of banana varieties that we regularly eat.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Picked by slaves.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
just like the previous, gros michael, the cavendish is susceptible to a fungal/bacterial disease. Wild type are pratically resistant, or a different species. but they often have that unslightly seeds.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If you live in a northern climate, you have to rely on a very complicated and expensive delivery system that will supply you with this fruit that can only be grown in the tropics. And the only way to keep it economical is to create an economy where food prices are artificially kept low because first world countries systematically suppress developing countries that grow bananas into becoming stable economies that would actually provide better wages for farmers and workers who would raise the price of bananas.
We have cheap bananas because we don’t mind living in a world where we abuse farmers and workers to work for pennies to supply us in the first world with cheap bananas.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.
I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.
Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.
lemming741@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve always assumed I misunderstood the brands name but no one has corrected you yet…
To the rabbit hole!
lemming741@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ok I’m back, it’s just ignorant assholes all the way down
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Twin Towers wholesale outlet: our prices are coming down fast!
Pearl harbor casual clothing.
Jim crows bar and grill.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.
…and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Our prices are falling from our hot deals but fret not: the melting point of steel… 🤔
IronBird@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i’m stealing the demolition company named around september 11th idea, that’s actually funny as fuck
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If our competition raises prices! … We’ll bring them down!!!
XiELEd@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Well I think I just realised why they do it. There’s this longstanding conspiracy theory that whenever a politician does a fuckup they conveniently say keywords associated with the fuckup but put it in a different context (like say, scandal related to trains, so they get into a model train hobby), so if people search up their name plus trains what shows up are articles talking about their new hobby.
Just thought of this because I was searching up “Banana Republic” in the context of neocolonialism (while reading my country’s history) and besides the Wikipedia page being the first result, the next results were that store. And I remembered this reply.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking for IRL examples now.
Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that’s name I forget.
GandalftheBlack@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil